• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Military / Iowa Guard soldiers on their way home

Iowa Guard soldiers on their way home

June 3, 2005 By admin

Seven hundred Iowa soldiers are headed home from Operation Enduring Freedom. Lieutenant Colonel Greg Hapgood says they’re all part of one big task force that’s already left the middle east. Task Force 168 has been in Afghanistan for a year and they’ve returned to the U.S. Right now they’re “out-processing” at Fort Hood, Texas, where Hapgood says “they’re itchin’ to come home.” Many of the 700 soldiers who comprise Task Force 168, many are from western Iowa…but others, from units all over the state, were pulled in to give it more flexibility, he says. There will be twelve separate homecoming ceremonies, in all parts of the state — east, west, north and southern regions of the state, he says all will be affected by this homecoming. Hapgood says Task force 168 is a very special unit put together for a specific purpose. It’s based on an infantry battalion, the First Battalion 168th Infantry — but they’ve added specialized soldiers including engineers, medics, people with expertise in supplies, all to “work a mission that has to do with protecting a number of different rebuilding entities over in Afghanistan.”

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Military Tagged With: Iowa National Guard

Featured Stories

Senator Ernst says Russian ban shows she’s doing something right

Governor signs Iowa Renewable Fuels Standard into law

Jury returns guilty verdict in shooting death of State Trooper

A haboob, a dust storm black out, hits northwest Iowa

Summit has easements for 20% of carbon pipeline route through Iowa

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Iowa’s Huckstorf garners national award

Iowa Special Olympics Summer games set to open in Ames

Radio Iowa/Baseball Coaches Association High School Poll 5/16/22

Iowa assistant coach Kirk Speraw to retire

Northern Iowa prepares for Missouri Valley Conference softball tournament

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2022 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC